meet the team

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Dr.Vidya Ramkumar,Ph.D.


DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance
Intermediate Fellow in Clinical and Public Health Reasearch
Associate Professor
Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech, Language Pathology
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU), Chennai , Tamilnadu, India

About Dr. Vidya Ramkumar

  • Dr. Vidya Ramkumar has spent the last decade working in developing service delivery models using technology to bridge gaps in audiology services in the underserved regions of South India.

  • She was recently awarded the Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance Clinical and public health fellowship (2020) at the intermediate level to pursue translational research in tele-practice applications in audiology and speech-language pathology services in collaboration with the public sector services in Tamil Nadu. She is also a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Professional Research fellowship awardee (2014). Her PhD was in the area of tele-audiological application in rural newborn hearing screening programs in South India.

  • She received the NIH sponsored “New investigator award” at the 3rd International Conference on Internet and Audiology, KY, USA in 2017.

  • She is a life member of Telemedicine Society of India, Indian Speech and Hearing Association and actively participates in the meetings of these societies.

CV -Dr. Vidya Ramkumar

RESEARCH COLLABORATORS

Dr.Lakshmi V


Associate Professor
Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech, Language Pathology
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU),
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India




Dr.Subramaniyan.B

Professor & Consultant Speech Language Pathologist,
The Cleft & Craniofacial Centre
Department of Plastic Surgery,
Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital.
Chromepet, Chennai ,Tamilnadu, India

Prof.Roopa Nagarajan


Academic Officer&Professor,
Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech, Language Pathology
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU),
Chennai , Tamilnadu, India

Prof.Anil Prabhakar


Professor
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Chennai, Tamilnadu,India

Dr.Shuba Kumar


Social Scientist
Founder Member Samarth,Samarth Organisation,
Chennai,Tamilnadu,India

STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATORS

  • Office of the STATE COMMISSIONER for the differently abled, Tamil Nadu

  • District Differently Abled Welfare Officer (DDAWO) -Ariyalur and Perambalur districts

  • NGO, INDO Trust , Ariyalur

  • NGO, READ, Perambalur



MENTORS AND ADVISORS

Prof.Hannah Kuper


Mentor
Professor of Epidemiology
Director of the International Centre for Evidence in Diability LSHTM(London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
London,United Kingdom

Dr. James W. Hall


Mentor
Professor
Salus University and the University of Hawaii
Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dr. V Muraleedharan


Advisor
Professor in-Charge
Centre for Technology and Policy, IIT(M)
Chennai, Tamilnadu,India

RESEARCH FELLOW

Ms.Deepashree Joshi .B


Research Fellow
Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech, Language Pathology
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU), Chennai , Tamilnadu, India

PhD SCHOLARS

nEETHI j

Part-time internal

2018
Senior clinical faculty
Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech, Language Pathology
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU), Chennai, Tamilnadu, India


DEEPASHRee Joshi b

Full-time

2021
Research Fellow
Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech, Language Pathology
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU), Chennai, Tamilnadu, India


lEKHA NAIR

Part-time external

2021
Department of ASLP NISH
National Institute of Speech and Hearing
Tiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India


PROJECT ASSISTANT

Radhika m

Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech, Language Pathology
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU),
Chennai , Tamilnadu, India


NGO GRASSROOT WORKERS

Mrs.Shakila Beevi

NGO Worker
INDO Trust , Ariyalur
Tamilnadu,
India